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PERSONALITY

Volume 14 · 133 words · 1797 Edition

in the schools; is that which constitutes an individual a distinct person.

PERSONATÆ, is the name of the 40th order in Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of a number of plants whose flowers are furnished with an irregular gaping or grinning petal, which in figure somewhat resembles the snout of an animal. The bulk of the genera of this natural order arrange themselves under the class and order didynamia angiospermia of the Sexual Method.

The rest, although they cannot enter into the artificial clasps just mentioned, for want of the classic character, the inequality of the flamma; yet, in a natural method, which admits of greater latitude, may be arranged with those plants which they resemble in their habit and general appearance, and particularly in the circumstances expressed in that title.